Health Care and Education

Warm-upWarm-upDiscuss with your table group what you know about health care trends in the United States.

Health Care TrendsHealth Care TrendsHigher cost for health care

insurance due to many factors including increasing cost of technology and over reliance on tests due to fear of law suits

More Americans living without insurance and major reform efforts to provide access to insurance for all Americans

Health Care TrendsHealth Care TrendsOutdated paper information

management system now being replaced by electronic record system

Movement towards personalized health plans and incentives for good behaviors

Focus QuestionsFocus QuestionsBrainstorm what you know about the Patient Protection and Affordable Act. (Referred to by some as Obamacare)

Patient Protection and Affordable Act

Patient Protection and Affordable ActReforms to Medicare system to

eliminate wasteExpansion of Medicare to include lower income individuals

Financial incentives (tax credits to business) to offer health care

Mandate that all individuals are required to purchase health insurance with tax penalties to be paid by those without insurance by 2015.

Patient Protection and Affordable Act

Patient Protection and Affordable ActInsurance companies can not drop

individuals for illnesses or refuse to take them because of pre existing conditions.

Young adults up to age 30 can stay on their parents insurance plans

New requirements that 85 cents of every premium dollar must go to health care (not just executive pay or perks for hospital management)

Patient Protection and Affordable Act

Patient Protection and Affordable Act

Elimination of Co-Payments for certain “essential preventative health care services”

Allow insurers to sell policies in state exchanges across state lines to increase competition

Pays for plan by taxing “high cost” plans

Creates “wellness” incentives for those who quit smoking/exercise

Patient Protection and Affordable Act Challenges

Patient Protection and Affordable Act Challenges

Republican governors across the country have filed legal challenges to legislation with focus on the individual mandate portion. US Supreme court will probably rule on the legal challenges in the coming year.

Health Care JigsawHealth Care JigsawWrite a one paragraph summary of the article and one paragraph reflection on the article to be handed in tomorrow.

Health Care JigsawHealth Care JigsawChoose one of the following topics:

Little Women (when puberty comes early)

The Oz fad diet (What you should eat and why.)

How safe are vaccines?

Health Care JigsawHealth Care JigsawRead the assigned article to yourself.

Discuss the main points of the article with your group and prepare to share them with the class tomorrow

Focus QuestionFocus QuestionBrainstorm what you think

should be done to address the issue of obesity in America.

Ideas to reduce obesityIdeas to reduce obesity

Education- health classes about nutrition, clearer food labels, increased physical fitness activities

Insurance incentives for those eat well, exercise

Focus QuestionFocus QuestionDo you think the government

has a responsibility to regulate obesity? Why or why not?.

Focus QuestionFocus QuestionIn your notebook, describe

what changes you would make to improve public education.

Education ReformEducation ReformRaise Academic StandardsSmaller Schools (Academy

Concept) Choice involvedCareer Oriented vs. Broad

based general education

Merit PayMerit Pay

Rewarding teachers based on how well their student achieve.

TenureTenure

Laws providing for job protection for educators to prevent them from being targeted unfairly.

Focus QuestionFocus QuestionBrainstorm what you know

about the following education related terms:

IEP, 504 plan, No Child Left Behind, Title I, Title 9

ESEA: No Child Left Behind?ESEA: No Child Left Behind?Elementary and Secondary Education

Act- Series of educational laws and funding measures related to public schools. Passed originally during the Johnson administration it was renewed during the Bush administration and called No Child Left Behind in reference to requirements to improve benchmarks for all students. Currently being revised in Congress in 2012.

I.E.P. I.E.P. Federal legislation requires classified special education students each develop an Individual Education Plan(I.E.P.) with input from parents, regular and special education teachers and the student (when age appropriate)

504 Plan 504 Plan Federal legislation that provides assistance to students with physical disabilities

Title I Title I The U.S. Department of Education provides Title I funds to states to give to school districts based on the number of children from low-income families in each district.

Title 9 Title 9 Law designed to provide equal funding in Athletics for both men and women.

PTO/PTA PTO/PTA Parent Teacher Organization or Parent Teacher Association. Partnerships in schools between parents and staff to help meet the needs of students.

Focus QuestionFocus Question

Brainstorm some typical activities that PTO perform in schools.

Education JigsawEducation JigsawRead the assigned article to

yourself.Discuss the article with others

that also read it too and agree on the main points.

Return to your original group and share your findings.